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The Labyrinth of Life in Fes

In a classroom decked out like a palace in Morocco’s most fervently Islamic city, I learned how to say the four seasons in Arabic.”And after fasl al-rabia’ [spring] …” prodded my teacher patiently in classical Arabic, “comes fasl al-saif [summer],” I answered. “Insha’Allah,” he added, leaning back in his chair and dragging his fingers thoughtfully across the elaborate mosaic tile work that decorated the walls of our cassroom at the Arabic Language Institute in Fez.